Leverage Odoo as your Modern Manufacturing Software
To Answer Supply Chain Disruptions &
Increasing Customer Expectations
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Digital Transformation for Modern Manufacturing Companies
The modern manufacturing landscape barely resembles the past; evolving times emphasize flexibility, customization, and integration over the big, clunky traditional ERPs or legacy systems.
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In the new era of postmodern deployment, most manufacturers start by adopting essential features during implementation, adding desired functionality as they grow, and managing their manufacturing initiatives with optimization tools.
Initial Phase
- MRP, PLM, Maintenance, Quality
- Inventory Management
- Order Management
- Accounting & Financials
Growing Phase
- Supply Chain Management
- Project Management
- Customer Relationship Management
Optimization Phase
- Reporting and dashboards
- Asset Management
- Human Resources
Must-have Features to Start your Manufacturing ERP Software Business
For those just starting their manufacturing business (2-10 users), here’s a list of essential features you must look for in the Manufacturing ERP Software.
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP)
With the potential to cover everything from estimating to scheduling and purchasing to shipping, the MRP function can also handle customer and order management with accurate and real-time information about every step in the process.
Shop Floor Automation
As you are just starting your manufacturing operations, chances are you still rely on paper-based processes, emails, and spreadsheets to manage operations.
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Your manufacturing system should be able to create automatic workflows for low-value, repetitive tasks so that people can focus on higher-skilled responsibilities.
Planning and Scheduling
Armed with all the visibility to foresee challenges and potential disruptions, your Manufacturing ERP shall let you make intelligent decisions such as reordering schedule and prioritizing tasks that could be achieved while waiting for the inventory to arrive.
Inventory Control
Inventory management goes alongside production scheduling, as your system will require to match real-time ingredients/components with work orders to plan resources accordingly.
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Industrial manufacturers will need an Inventory system to generate Bill of Materials (BOM). In contrast, process and food manufacturers need inventory control software with recipe and formula management capabilities to minimize waste.
Finance and Accounting
Looking out for Manufacturing ERP Software that automates and optimizes every element of your financial management, turns quotes into a sales order, and provides a real-time overview of company’s cash flow should be ideally on your radar.
Must-have Features to Grow your Manufacturing Business
As your business grows, you will seek ways to manage increasing workloads associated with a growing customer base through your Manufacturing ERP software.
Flexible inventory management
Odoo’s inventory management module allows businesses to track their inventory levels in real-time and manage multiple warehouses. It also offers advanced features such as batch and serial number tracking, which can be beneficial for businesses dealing with perishable or high-value products.
Supply Chain Management
Manufacturing ERP software gives you the visibility to understand the drawbacks and delays in your material requirement planning and production scheduling so that you can arrange setbacks and look to source raw materials from an alternative supplier during your growth phase.
Analytics and Business Intelligence
Manufacturing ERP software utilizes business intelligence tools to help you analyze high-level trends and drill down into granular detail, understanding the cost-efficiency of your processes and prioritizing the metrics that matter most to your growth.
Project Management
As your business grows, you will need your manufacturing software to help plan projects, manage tasks, and allocate resources for staying organized and effectively managing your objectives while meeting the increasing demands of your client base.
Odoo for Manufacturing
Choosing Odoo Manufacturing software for business means managing every aspect of your business in one place, including Manufacturing, distribution, finances, and reporting, with an integrated suite of applications to grow and optimize your business.
In a world of painful integrations,choose a solution that manages all your Manufacturing operations in a single place.
Bill of Materials and Routing
Inventory Control
Production Management
Sales Order Management
Work Center Control Panel
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Purchase Order Management
Advanced Planning and Scheduling
Requisition Management
ERP Business Intelligence and Analytics
Supply Chain Management
Financial Management
Engineering Change Control (ECC)
Supports Barcode Scanning
Quality Alerts and Checks
Preventive and Corrective Maintenance
Overall Equipment Effectiveness Reports
Want to know more about Odoo Manufacturing Software Capabilities
Types of Manufacturing Processes Supported by Odoo
Odoo for Repetitive Manufacturing Businesses
The products you make as a Repetitive manufacturer are more unique and customizable, and their construction needs more attention to detail.
Be it access to flexible master data, advanced production planning/scheduling, controlling production costs, and shop floor automation, Odoo manufacturing covers it all.
Odoo for Process Manufacturing Businesses
Odoo offers the ability to track and trace lots, adaptability to customize new formulas/recipes, supply chain optimization, Quality management, support of different Units of Measures (UOM), and market compliance matters.
Odoo for Discrete Manufacturing Businesses
For Discrete manufacturers dealing in the production of parts, Odoo supports Bill of Materials, Procurement, Production Planning, Inventory Management, Production Management, Quality Control, and Fulfillment.
Benefits of choosing Odoo Manufacturing ERP
Manage everything from sales to production in one Manufacturing ERP solution
Keep track of materials and product stock to avoid stock-outs
Gain real-time visibility with Planning, Production, and Scheduling management in one place
End-to-end Traceability for batches, materials, expiry dates, and more
Manage everything from sales to production in one Manufacturing ERP solution
Integrated Document Management for drawings, worksheets, and quality documents
Automate preventive maintenance to keep your line running
Access to computed statistics, including MTBF and MTBR, to reduce the risk of equipment failure
Fully integrated with other Odoo Apps to help you scale as your business grows
Types of Manufacturing Industries Supported by Odoo
Apparel
Automotive
Custom arts and crafts
Electronics and high tech
Food and Beverage
Healthcare
Furniture
Industrial Machinery and Equipment
Jewelry and accessories
